Library Lab posted about World Book Night applications a couple of months ago and it's coming up tomorrow. According their website, "World Book Night is an annual celebration dedicated to spreading the love of reading, person to person.  Each year on April 23, tens of thousands of people go out into their communities and give half a million free World Book Night paperbacks to light and non-readers.  In 2012, World Book Night was celebrated in the U.S., the UK, Ireland, and Germany."

This is just a reminder to watch out for rogue book givers in your community. It's called World Book Night, but book giving happens all day on April 23. You might want to keep an eye on @wbnamerica or #WorldBookNight or #WBN2013 to follow the action.

I'm very excited to share my 20 copies of The Phantom Tollbooth via our neighborhood Little Free Library in Silver Lake. If you happen to be in LA, swing by and get one. It's a fantastic book.

Back in May, I posted about a nearby Little Free Library I happened upon, and promised to open my own. Well, we did it yesterday.

Little Free Library #2646 was built by my good friend Wesley Smith with much manly help from my husband Russell Bates. I painted it and gathered books.

We put it on a sad vacant lot near our house and a nursery school. We've already had donations from neighbors of all ages and a few books have been borrowed.

 You can learn more about opening your own Little Free Library or supporting them here.